Basically this: "Eliezer Yudkowsky writes and pretends he's an AI researcher but probably hasn't written so much as an Eliza bot."
While the Eliezer S. Yudkowsky site has lots of divulgation articles and his work on rationality is of indisputable value, I find myself at a loss when I want to respond to this. Which frustrates me very much.
So, to avoid this sort of situation in the future, I have to ask: What did the man, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, actually accomplish in his own field?
Please don't downvote the hell out of me, I'm just trying to create a future reference for this sort of annoyance.
It shows marketing skill. That doesn't necessarily indicate competence in other fields - and this is an area where competence is important. Especially so if you want to participate in the race - and have some chance of actually winning it.
Indeed. Antonino Zichichi is a far worse physicist than what pretty much any Italian layman believes, even though it was him who got the Gran Sasso laboratories funded.